The more we understand impermanence, the more we appreciate each moment of our lives.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly.

The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

The practice of mindfulness leads naturally to concentration. Concentration leads naturally to wisdom.

The key to meditation is to recognize the nature of your mind rather than trying to change it.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense.

The development of wisdom does not occur in isolation but requires the cultivation of the entire Noble Eightfold Path.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

The force of the kindness of others is so strong, we can't possibly measure it.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Compassion is not something we develop. It arises naturally as we see the truth of what is.

The stages of insight unfold naturally when mindfulness is continuous. There is no need to desire them or try to make them happen.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Our defilements are like tame tigers. If you feed them, they're tame. If you stop feeding them, they'll eat you up.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is the space of possibility.

Our basic nature is pure awareness that simply cognizes experience. Everything else is temporary and adventitious.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

Life is an art, and like perfect art it should be self-forgetting.